Israels FN ambassadör: RON PROSOR (Israel), citing recent killings in Iraq, Lebanon,
Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia, said most of the people being oppressed in
the region had been ignored by the Council, cast aside to make way for a
litany of half-truths, myths and lies about Israel. He was here to
convey one simple truth. “The people of Israel are not occupiers and we
are not settlers,” he said. “Israel is our home and Jerusalem is the
eternal capital of our sovereign State.” There were many threats in the
Middle East, but the presence of Jewish homes in the Jewish homeland
had never been one of them. That the international community was
outraged when Jews built homes in Jerusalem yet silent when they were
murdered for living in the city was “appalling” hypocrisy.